Fabiana Heinrich (ICSI Fellow, 2016) earned her Doctoral degree in Design from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in April 2018 with the dissertation entitled Critique of experience as a commodity in the Design Field. She became an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication in the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA-UFRJ) in October 2018 and is currently working on an English version of the dissertation.

Liliana Gil (ICSI Fellow, 2018) is the recipient of grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation (STS/Cultural Anthropology) for her Dissertation Research Project “Make-do Innovation: Reconfiguring Technological Improvisation in Brazil.”

Kristin Moriah (ICSI Fellow, 2017) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Valentina Rozas-Krause (ICSI Fellow, 2018) published Disputar la Ciudad. [Dispute the City] Editorial Bifurcaciones: Santiago. Disputar la Ciudad deals with strategies of oppression, resistance and memory within varying urban contexts. The volume is divided into four themes: submission, resistance, memorialization and reparation. She is the recipient of a Mellon/ACLS American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2019-2020 academic year), for her dissertation "Memorials and the Cult of Apology." She is also Chair of the organization committee for the Global Urban Humanities Initiative University of California- Berkeley symposium “Techniques of Memory: Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power,” David Brower Center (Berkeley), April 17-18, 2019; and co-Chair of the paper session “Breaking the Bronze Ceiling: Memorials and Gender,” with Andrew M. Shanken, for the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Conference 2020, Seattle, WA.

Dorothy Stringer (ICSI Fellow, 2015) published “Slavery and the Afrofuture in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand” in “Speculating Futures,” Parnassus Award-winning special issue of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora 42.1-2 (Fall 2016): 204-217; and “Scripture, Psyche and Women in Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain,” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International 5.2 (Fall 2016): 182-202.

Yossi David (ICSI Fellow, 2016) is a Visiting Scholar at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He received the top paper award by the Ethnicity & Race in Communication division at the International Communication Association (ICA) in 2019. He published “Too good to be true: The effect of conciliatory message design on compromising attitudes in intractable conflict” in Discourse and Society; “Reframing community boundaries: The erosive power of new media spaces in authoritarian societies” in Information, Communication and Society; “Gender-empathic constructions, empathy and support for compromise in intractable conflict” in Journal of Conflict Resolution, 62(8), 1727–1752; and “On resonance: A study of culture-dependent reinterpretations of extremist violence in Israeli media discourse” in Media Culture and Society, 40(4), 514–534.

Benjamin Hegarty (ICSI Fellow, 2015) will commence a three-year McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne in June 2019. His PhD thesis (Australian National University, 2019) won the Australian Anthropological Association PhD Thesis Prize, and was runner up for the Australian National University Gender Institute Prize.

Jessica Levy (ICSI Fellow, 2017) published "Black Power in the Board Room: Leon Sullivan and the Corporate Anti-Apartheid Response," Enterprise & Society, forthcoming; "Review of Winning Our Freedom Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960 by Nicholas Grant," Black Perspectives, October 5, 2018; "Review of Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago, edited by Robert E. Weems, Jr. and Jason P. Chambers," Business History Review, vol. 92, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 166-168. She is the recipient of the Robert W. Woodruff Library Research Travel Award, Atlanta University Center, 2018; and the Sam Fishman Travel Grant, Walter E. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, 2018. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Department of African American Studies.

Kayode Kofoworola (ICSI Fellow, 2016) published “Importance of Language Communication in Dramatic Performance” in Ziky O. Kofoworola et al ed. African Theatre : Studies in Theory and Criticism, Published by Dept. of Theatre Studies Methodist University College, Ghana and Department of Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, Nigeria 2017. He was a Lead Panelist on the topic “Is the Critic dead in Nigeria’s Literary Firmament?” at the 19th Lagos Book Festival organized by the Committee for Relevant Arts (CORA) Art and Cultural Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria, November, 2017. He also attended the 2nd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities (LSSDH-2018) organized by the Digital Humanities Research Unit, University Of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, and Sponsored by Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, September 30-October 6, 2018.

Nicholas Barron (ICSI Fellow, 2017) was awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship from Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico for his dissertation "Applying Anthropology, Assembling Indigenous Community: Anthropology and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Southern Arizona" and will begin teaching anthropology at Mission College (Santa Clara, California) in fall 2019. He has published “‘We hope that you will continue to teach us how best to learn’: Assembling the Pascua Yaqui Tribe at the 89th Wenner-Gren International Symposium,” Histories of Anthropology Annual; and a review of The Small Shall Be Strong: A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians, by Matthew S. Makley, Native American Indigenous Studies Association Journal.

Lucas G. Pinheiro (ICSI Fellow, 2017) is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (Mellon Foundation and the University of Chicago).

Hakem Al-Rustom (ICSI Fellow, 2015) is the Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Michigan. He has published "Between Anatolia and the Balkans: Tracing Armenians in a Post-Ottoman Order" (Chapter, 2018) and "Returning to the Question of Europe: On Arabs, Jews, and Arab-Jews" (Chapter, forthcoming). In addition, he has established a new interdisciplinary initiative titled "Global Theories of Critique" that brings together a community of thinkers and practitioners of theoretical, literary, and visual works at the University of Michigan to advance conversations between Critical and Postcolonial theories in non-European settings.

Prasad Pannian (ICSI Fellow, 2016) He has been designated as the Chair of the Department of English & Comparative Literature and as the Coordinator of Centre for Theory & Criticism at Central University of Kerala and won the Edward Said Fellowship ( 2018-19) instituted by the Heyman Centre for Humanities, Columbia University in the City of New York. He has published a monograph on Edward W. Said published by SPCS, Kottayam, Kerala.

Kate Bermingham (ICSI Fellow, 2015) co-founded Irish 4 Reproductive Health (I4RH), a non-hierarchical group that advocates for reproductive justice at the University of Notre Dame and in South Bend, IN. In May 2018, the group filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration and Notre Dame in response to a settlement between the two that attempts to impede student, staff, and faculty access to a full range of reproductive health services.

Anastasia Kalk (ICSI Fellow, 2016) was admitted to an MA program at the New School for Social Research, graduated from the program, and is now a PhD student in the Politics Department, NSSR.

Joel Crombez (ICSI Fellow, 2017) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He is the recipient of a Stanford Lyman Memorial Scholarship for a dissertation that makes a theoretical contribution to the field. He recently defended his dissertation titled "The Anxiety and the Ecstasy of Technical Vertigo: Psychological and Sociological Foundations of Critical Socioanalysis from the Italian Renaissance to the 21st Century."

Sorelle Henricus (ICSI Fellow, 2015) received the Maurice Baker prize for best thesis in English Literature.

Manas Dutta (ICSI Fellow, 2018) recently published “Remapping the Shifting Paradigm of Geo-strategy in the Indian Ocean: Understanding the Roles of China and South India in the Post Truth Era,” Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 2018. He is the Principal Investigator, Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Funded Project on the theme "The Native and the Coloniser's War: Exploring the Indian Soldier's Contribution in the Great War, 1914-1918” from 2018-2020.

Nicholas Barron (ICSI Fellow, 2017) was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship from the University of New Mexico-Mellon Foundation for his project "Applying Anthropology, Assembling Indigenous Community: The Co-production of Applied Anthropology and the Pascua Yaqui Indian Tribe in Southern Arizona, 1932-2016."

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (ICSI Fellow, 2017) was awarded the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship 2018-19 for lecturing and Research in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His Fulbright research is a comparative study of W.E.B. DuBois and B.R. Ambedkar for global solidarity and social justice and is based on his work at the ICSI.

Sophia Kanaouti (ICSI Fellow, 2018) published “Photo tourism: monuments without memory on Instagram” (in Greek), Kaboom, No. 4, 2018, pp. 49-64. She is teaching for the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.